Loving Spirit can help in chase for record £7.5m jackpot in Scoop6

The Scoop6 pool could top £7.5 million on Saturday as punters chase a record-breaking dividend for as little as a £2 stake.

A lone punter made it to the final leg last week only to see his selection in the 2,000 Guineas blow out and with Totesport setting another brutal test for backers, officials believe that another £4million could be bet as punters try and land a monster payout.

High hopes: Loving Spirit has run with great credit at Ascot

Saturday's final leg is the fiendishly difficult 29-runner Victoria Cup, a ferocious handicap to solve at the best of times, but LOVING SPIRIT (Ascot, nap, 3.50) has run with great credit in a number of similar handicaps at the Berkshire venue before and is worth including in a Scoop6 perm.

The gelding's five handicap outings in big fields over course and distance have yielded form figures of 28633 with defeats by half a length, three quarters of a length and a head suggesting that he is surely due a change of fortune. Although beaten four lengths in this event 12 months ago, James Toller's charge found loads of trouble in running and it is perhaps worth noting that his small yard had a winner recently.

With a number of Sea The Stars' progeny starting to come into their own, today may be the day that CASUAL SMILE (Lingfield, 2.20) advances her Epsom Oaks claims in the trial chosen as leg two of the Scoop6.

Andrew Balding's filly, out of his Oaks winner Casual Look, chased home the current Epsom favourite Taghrooda at Newmarket last September yet is still available at 33-1 for Oaks glory in a month's time.

That price may look generous granted a prominent showing in the Listed affair.

In-form trainer Robert Cowell, who saddled a 1-2 in a sprint handicap at Lingfield yesterday, can score again with MARCH (Nottingham, next best, 3.55).

She didn't get the run of the race at Bath in a strongly-run Listed event last time but is taken to gain compensation in a similar event here.